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NASB | Jude 1:4 For certain persons have crept in unnoticed, those who were long beforehand marked out for this condemnation, ungodly persons who turn the grace of our God into licentiousness and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Jude 1:4 For certain people have crept in unnoticed [just as if they were sneaking in by a side door]. They are ungodly persons whose condemnation was predicted long ago, for they distort the grace of our God into decadence and immoral freedom [viewing it as an opportunity to do whatever they want], and deny and disown our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ. |
Subject: Scandal of the Catholic Priesthood |
Bible Note: So here are Council of Trent pronunciations. Canon I: "If anyone denies that in the sacrament of the most holy eucharist are contained truly, really and substantially the body and blood, together with the soul and divinity of our Lord Jesus Christ, and consequently the whole Christ, but says that he is in it only as a sign, a figure or force, let him be anathema." Pronounce a damnation on anybody who says it's not actually Jesus Christ in the whole that the priest has brought down. Canon II: "If anyone says that in the sacred and holy sacrament of the eucharist the substance of the bread and wine remains conjointly with the body and blood of our Lord Jesus Christ, and denies that wonderful and singular change of the whole substance of the bread into the body, and the whole substance of the wine into the blood, the appearances only of bread and wine remaining," which change the Catholic church most aptly calls transubstantiation, "let him be anathema." Canon number VIII: "If anyone says that Christ received in the eucharist is received spiritually only, and not also sacramentally and really, let him be anathema." This is just perverse. Eleven years later in 1562, the 22nd session of Trent was held. This time the decree promulgated was entitled "Doctrine Concerning the Sacrifice of the Mass." And the decree says this: "In as much as in this divine sacrifice, which is celebrated in the mass is contained and immolated in an unbloodied manner, the same Christ who once offered Himself in a bloody manner on the altar of the cross, the holy council therefore teaches that this is truly propitiatory and has this effect; that if we, contrite and penitent, with sincere heart and upright faith, with fear and reverence draw nigh to God, we obtain mercy and find grace in seasonable aid." That is to say that there is salvation in the mass. That is what it's saying. "For, appeased by this sacrifice," the mass, "the Lord grants the grace and gift of penitence and pardons even the gravest crimes and sins." So if you go into the mass with the right attitude, you come out pardoned. "For the victim is one and the same, the same now offering by the ministry of priests, who then offered himself on the cross." There's no difference between what a priest does and what Jesus did on the cross. "Only the manner is different," it says. This is directly quoting out of the second chapter out of the decree called "Doctrine Concerning the Sacrifice of the Mass." "The fruits of that bloody sacrifice, it is well understood, are received most abundantly through this unbloody one. So far is the latter from derogating in any way from the former. "Wherefore, according to the tradition of the apostles, it is rightly offered not only for the sins, punishment, satisfactions and other necessities of the faithful who are living, but also for those departed in Christ but not yet fully purified." So the mass saves the people who are alive there, and the people who are dead and not yet purified. Do you want to debate that? Listen to what Trent said: Canon number I: "If anyone says that in the mass a true and real sacrifice is not offered to God or that to be offered is nothing else than that Christ is given to us to eat, let him be anathema. If anyone says by those words 'Do this for a remembrance of me' -- if you say that Christ did not institute the apostles priests, and did not ordain that they and other priests should offer his own body and blood -- "let him be anathema." If you say that Christ did not institute the priesthood to offer the mass, you're anathema. Canon number III: "If anyone says that the sacrifice of the mass is one only of praise and thanksgiving, or that it is a mere commemoration of the sacrifice consummated on the cross, but not a propitiatory one" -- if you say there's no propitiation in the mass -- "or that it profits him only who receives and ought not to be offered for the living and the dead for sin's punishment, satisfactions and other necessities, let him be anathema." That is to say, if you say that the mass isn't propitiatory for the sins of the living, and if you say it's not propitiatory for the sins of the dead, you're cursed. Canon number IV: "If anyone says," , "that by the sacrifice of the mass a blasphemy is cast upon the most holy sacrifice of Christ" -- if you say the mass is a blasphemy, which we would say -- "let him be anathema." Canon V: "If anyone says that it is a deception to celebrate masses in honor of the saints, and in order to obtain their intercession with God as the church intends, let him be anathema." And as you read down these canons, you can tell by their answer what the reformers were saying. Canon VI: "If anyone says that the canon of the mass contains errors, let him be anathema." |